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Contemporary medical tourism: Conceptualisation, culture and commodification
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An overview is given of the short history and rapid rise of medical tourism, its documentation, and current knowledge and analysis of the industry.About:
This article is published in Tourism Management.The article was published on 2013-02-01. It has received 465 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tourism geography & Tourism.read more
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Health Tourism: Conceptual Framework and Insights from the Case of a Spanish Mature Destination Turismo de salud: marco conceptual y perspectivas desde el caso de un destino maduro español
TL;DR: In this article, the complexity of the continuum of different practices associated with the supply side of health tourism is illustrated with a case study of a mature destination, and the main enablers and barriers for cooperation between tourism and health companies.
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Developmental Strategies of the Promotion Policies in Medical Tourism Industry in South Korea: A 10-Year Study (2009-2018).
Kyoung-Lee Kim,Byung-Ro Seo +1 more
TL;DR: It is suggested to establish the medical tourism information system and brand the Korean medical tourism offering a joint treatment of western and oriental medicine and prepare the expansion of the industry to the medical wellness tourism industry by training global healthcare experts.
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International market-oriented strategies for medical tourism destinations:
Erik A. Borg,Kjell Ljungbo +1 more
TL;DR: Evidence of different approaches to medical tourism based on different organizational frameworks for the marketing of medical services to international patients is presented, indicating that market orientation results in greater emphasis on superior service quality of health care.
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Health and Wellness–Related Travel: A Scoping Study of the Literature in 2010-2018
TL;DR: Health and wellness-related travel, also known as medical tourism, is a topical phenomenon with a wide range of effects in both local and transnational contexts as mentioned in this paper, and a scoping study examines the lit...
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Culture’s Influence on the Design and Delivery of the Marketing Mix Elements in Tourism and Hospitality
Erdogan Koc,Ahu Yazıcı Ayyıldız +1 more
TL;DR: This article presented a comprehensive and compact document on almost all cultural variables/characteristics and all marketing mix elements based on data collected from a wide range of countries supported by several research studies.
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Medical tourism: Sea, sun, sand and … surgery
TL;DR: The rise of medical tourism emphasises the privatisation of health care, the growing dependence on technology, uneven access to health resources and the accelerated globalisation of both health care and tourism.
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Health and Wellness Tourism
Melanie Smith,László Puczkó +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Petroune et al. present the future of health and wellness tourism in terms of management and management issues in health and well-being tourism, as well as a review of the current state of the art.
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Medical Tourism in Developing Countries
TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analysis of the literature on medical tourism and its applications in the oil and gas industry and investigates the demand for offshore doctors and the supply of medical tourism.
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Medical tourism: assessing the evidence on treatment abroad.
Neil Lunt,Percivil Carrera +1 more
TL;DR: The review sought to identify the medical tourist literature for out-of-pocket payments, focusing wherever possible on evidence and experience pertaining to patients in mid-life and beyond, and drew attention to gaps in research evidence.
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Globalization and healthcare: understanding health and medical tourism
TL;DR: This paper underscored the issue of a severely limited formal literature that is compounded by conceptual ambiguity facing health and medical tourism scholarship, and provided evidence with regard to the scale of trade in healthcare.